Investments

This week, municipal bond funds saw their largest outflows since January 2011 and the fifth largest on record.

Samson Capital Advisors has launched its maiden mutual fund, a currency offering dubbed the Samson STRONG Nations Currency Fund.

The U.S. News & World Report today named its mutual fund winners for 2012, including a once-fallen star manager and a mutual fund trade group.

The combined assets of the nation’s exchange-traded funds rose in November by $26.06 billion, or 2.1%, to $1.295 trillion.in November, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Legg Mason Global Asset Management last month teamed up with Brandywine Global Investment Management to launch the Legg Mason BW Global High Yield Fund.

Investors redeemed $6.57 billion from mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, December 12, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

While the bloom is still on the alternative mutual fund rose, 2012 hasn't been as kind to alternatives as in years past.

"We are likely to end 2012 with a record level of assets'' in exchange-traded funds and other exchange-traded products, said Deborah Fuhr, Managing Partner at ETFGI, the London consulting firm that compiles the numbers. This should also reflect "a record level of net new assets invested into the products during the year.''

Exchange-traded funds have had a banner year, reaching a new peak of $1.7 trillion in assets held, at the end of November.

While the bloom is still on the alternative mutual fund rose, 2012 hasn't been as kind to alternatives as in years past.

Target-date funds are slowly inching their way into 401(k) plan participants’ portfolios.

Investors redeemed $6.57 billion from mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, December 12, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

Boston-based MFS capped off its busy year of rebranding and global advertising by completing the move of its corporate headquarters to 111 Huntington Avenue this week.

FlexShares has launched a trio of dividend-focused equity index exchange-traded funds.

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management said it plans to close 13 ETFs, which represent less than 1% of Invesco PowerShares’ total assets.

Bill McNabb, chief executive officer of the Vanguard Group, has 130 billion reasons to smile this holiday season.

As the market prepares to ring in 2013, municipal experts have mostly positive expectations for interest rates, credit quality, investor demand, and the viability of municipals' tax exemption in the New Year, mixed with some lingering apprehensions about the fiscal cliff and overseas turmoil.

Bill McNabb, chief executive officer of the Vanguard Group, has 130 billion reasons to smile this holiday season.

For the week ended Dec. 12, investors pulled an estimated $6.57 billion from mutual funds, their biggest weekly withdrawal this year.

AdvisorShares is currently prepping to launch an alternative income exchange-traded fund in early 2013.